Coventry Pool & Garden House Plans: Plus English Summerhouses

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TOTAL RIP OFF!!!

Nice book, questionable designs

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Coventry Pool & Garden House Plans: Plus English Summerhouses

Manufacturer: Manor House Publishing Co., Inc.
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Binding: Paperback

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Swimming pool owners worldwide should rejoice as this unique 128-page catalog presents the newest, boldest and most beautiful pool house designs from leading registered architects. The catalog features 58 full-page renderings of pool house and garden house exteriors, along with corresponding floor plans for each to show space utilization and amenities provided. Also featured are five charming summerhouses from England. This section is beautifully photographed and offers an opportunity to obtain the perfect adornment for an English-style garden. The collection covers a broad range of styles and sizes so that a pool house or a garden house design can be selected to meet the requirements of almost any type of property and budget. An especially important aspect of the catalog is that the company offers a complete set of architectural plans for each pool house and garden house illustrated. The detailed building plans, which may be ordered by phone or by use of an order form provided in the back of the catalog, include architectural plans and elevations, so that each pool house and garden house can be built exactly the way it appears. While eight of the designs in the catalog are specifically designated garden houses, many of the pool house designs can be easily converted to garden houses, thereby increasing the variety of choices.

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TOTAL RIP OFF!!!.......2007-05-14

This book was a total rip off! The title does not lend way to the contents. It had nothing I was looking for. It was poorly bound and it fell apart at the spine the 2nd day I had it!!! Huge Waste Of Money!!!

Nice book, questionable designs.......2003-02-28

I will be returning this book. As a licensed professional landscape architect, I find the proportions and design qualities lacking in most of the proposed designs. The designs depict what I would expect to buy from a mass merchandising home center, not such a highly acclaimed book. I was very disappointed. Content aside, the book was nice. I believe actual photographs might have helped tremendously.

Dissapointed.......2002-10-10

The book is nice but didn't have what we needed. We are looking for a plan for a corner pool house big enough to accomodate a billiard table and there is nothing like that in the book. Also, the exteriors are mostly too contemporary, nothing that would blend with our brick Georgian home. In a word, DISSAPOINTED. Had I seen the book at a bookstore, I would not have bought it.

Nice book.......2002-09-10

I was looking for design ideas/plans. This one has nice ideas but it is a book in which you can then proceed to order plans. Not what I was looking for. I was looking for ideas, measurements, planning etc..that sort of thing. If that is what you are looking for this book would not be the right fit for you.

Nice book.......2002-09-10

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The Canadian drawing course: Elementary freehand, object, constructive and perspective drawing : public school course, complete in 5 books
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In Timeless Texas, long-time fans of Laurence Parent's photography will be introduced to a contemplative side of this talented artist, who, for the first time, presents his vision of the Texas landscape in black and white.

With a thoughtful introduction by another Texas icon, Elmer Kelton, and a personal note from the photographer, the book unfolds as a tribute to the enduring landscape of Texas, as seen through the lens of someone who knows it well. Like looking at old family photographs, these images remind us of why we miss Texas when we leave it and why certain places remain comforting by their very constancy.

Parent's attachments to and recollections of these places come alive in extended captions that capture the adventure, hard work, and funny moments in the life of a professional photographer. By climbing those mountains, chasing those clouds, and taking that quiet pause at a hidden waterfall, Parent has created a Texas chiaroscuro that is bound to captivate all who go with him.

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Scores big--even in Texas.......2006-07-05

Purchased this as a gift for my Daughter and Son-in-law who live in Dallas. They have given it nothing but rave reviews.

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Set in the toxic labyrinth of abandoned subway tunnels, SUBGurlz chronicles the superhero happenings of three chemically altered girlfriends. Swizzle is the strongest person on earth - unfortunately, the poor thing's always killing people accidentally. Liver, her girlfriend, is blessed with the power to bring back the dead. Byte has brainpower so stupendous that she's unable to grow hair on her head. Are the SUBGurlz good or bad? It all depends on which side you're on.

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get ready to guffaw.......2000-06-08

Subgurlz made an otherwise unspectacular day bristle with humor. These gurlz weren't raised right, they were dragged up. I was routing for them from page one. As Liver might say, "MORE!"

SUBGURLZ : A Unique Underground Romp.......2000-05-20

"SUBGURLZ" by cartoonist Jennifer Camper is a fiercely ribald and eccentric story by one of the most talented artists of the genre. Camper's brand of ironic humor is coyly matched by her detailed and expressive drawing style. Every aspect of the narrative contains sly references which invite the reader into the diabolical mind of the creator. Just the names of the three protagonists - Swizzle, Liver, and Byte - guarantee a unique romp through the subway maze that is under the City, and beneath the consciousness of modern world. SUBGURLZ is destined to be an "underground" classic, in more ways than one! Don't miss this weirdly wonderful adventure.

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This is the acclaimed biography of a giant of American journalism. As editor-publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Robert R. McCormick came to personify his city. Drawing on McCormick's personal papers and years of research, Richard Norton Smith has written the definitive life of the towering figure known as The Colonel.

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good history but the man remains a mystery.......2005-05-20

This is a lengthy book full of interesting historical material. But, as for the man himself, I never got the feeling that I was getting more than a sketch of him. Could any author do better? McM had more than his share of quirks and he didn't suffer fools, or anyone else, gladly, so perhaps there is no way anyone will ever get too deep into the mind of the man. The main thing I took away from the book is that Robert R. McCormick was a good businessman and the oddest duck of his time. The book is not a difficult read but, after reading it, the man remains a cipher. After a detailed accounting the war with FDR, the author seemed to rush to get to the end of RRM's life. Far from being a sympathetic character, pathetic more easily comes to mind. RRM had lots of power and plenty of money but he lived in a very cold world of his own that it appears no one during his life, or readers of this book today, can enter.

An excellent biography of a fascinating man........1998-05-25

In this book, Richard Norton Smith does a first-rate job of recounting McCormick's life, going far in seperating the man from the public image that we have of him today. Balanced and judicious, it also makes for excellent reading, as Smith presents McCormick's life in an engaging manner. If there is a flaw in the book, it is in Smith's failure to adequately explain how the view of McCormick as a hidebound reactionary came to overshadow many aspects of his life, such as his early career as a progressive in local politics, or his legal campaigns in support of the First Amendment. This is a must-read book for anybody interested in Chicago's past, the evolution of modern journalism, or the history of twentieth century America.

The Colonel - The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick 1880-1955

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The Colonel - The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick 1880-1955
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The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955.: An article from: Columbia Journalism Review

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The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955.: An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
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Manufacturer: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
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Title: The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955.
Author: Ralph Otwell
Publication: Columbia Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1997
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Volume: v36 Issue: n4 Page: p63(3)

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Solo Parenting Your Essential Guide: How to Find the Balance Between Parenthood and Personhood
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In the same style as the previous two books by Hourtoulle, here is a fabulous full color book on this major battle in the Napoleonic Wars.

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DO NOT BELIEVE IT! a wonderfull book derided by some!.......2006-01-04

The sheer amount of info about uniforms make it's purchase for any napoleonic wargamer (worth it's salt) IMPRESCINDIBLE...

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Typos detract from what could have been a decent book.......2002-10-02

I've seen better editing jobs on high school yearbooks. You can't beat these books for the depictions of the uniforms, but there is a typographical error on nearly every page. Additionally, someone didn't do a very good job on the translation either. For example, page 19, "The Middle and Young Guards, illustrated themselves at Essling." I suppose it's worth the price for the illustrations, but a poor read. Sloppy and unprofessional and a poor companion to Jena, Auerstadt and Borodino. I suppose you need to know how to spell in order to use spell check.

Pretty Pictures, and a lot of gibberish.......2002-09-02

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First, the English translation is miserably bad. I was astonished to find that a book would actually be published without even a rudimentary editing job. Simple words are riddled with typos on every page, and some sentences are virtually incomprehensible - even on the back cover!

Second, Hourtoulle's text is standard-issue hero-worship of Napoleon, to the point of silliness. Perhaps it sounded pretty in the original French, but with this translation, what we get is something that a proud ten-year-old might have written, if Napoleon had happened to be his father.

For a lavish display of gorgeous pictures, it can't be beat.

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A critical examination of the Potsdam Accords and Morgenthau plan.......2006-08-07

I bought Gruesome Harvest several years ago, but never read it until this summer. This book is a full-frontal assault on the genocidal Morgenthau Plan and the Potsdam accords. But how accurate is it? Very accurate. My mother was a civilian employee of the United States Armed Forces and a resident of the French Zone of occupation after World War II. The information in this book corresponds directly with her accounts of life there after the war. It's interesting to note that there was a hierarchy of food availability in the U.S. occupied zone - the military naturally got as much food as they needed, then the DP's or Displaced Persons also had access to good nutrition. Finally, the Germans were at the bottom of the food chain, given a subsistence diet of 1,200 calories a day. The author cites studies from The University of Minnesota of the results of feeding people 1,650 calories a day "Within six months each man lost a fourth of his weight and experienced fainting spells, dizziness, and a feeling of always being cold. Their hearts shrank and some had to have two blankets even in summer. All lost three-fourths of their energy and work ability." He also cites a similar study of an experiment conducted by Northwestern University Medical School; " ... after six weeks, however, they showed a slow, progressive deterioration in physical and mental health, accompanied by loss of endurance, skin lesions, leg pains, and mental slowness." The 1,200 calorie diet was all the more horrific because the majority of the 15 million German expellees were resettled into the bombed out ruins of the Western zones (not Soviet zone) of occupation after having been starved, repeatedly raped, and otherwise abused by the Soviets and their puppets. And who were these 15 million refugees, Nazi war criminals and camp guards? No, they were primarily women, the elderly and children. The men, as this book illustrates, were all in prison camps, consigned to slave labor in Siberia and other parts of the former Soviet Union by the Yalta and Potsdam accords; also used as slave labor under horrific conditions by the British, French and Americans.
In hindsight, it can be noted that Harry Truman was inexperienced in world affairs, and he inherited an impossible situation from FDR. The former president, an egomaniacal imbecile thought his charm would work wonders with Stalin - it's frightening to think what the outcome in Europe would have been had he lived 2 years longer. Also, in defense of Truman it should be noted that he inherited from FDR an administration padded with Stalinist communists including Hiss and White who were making many decisions relevant to Germany. From other accounts I've read, Morgenthau's intent was to starve to death 30 to 40 million Germans out of psychotic bloodlust revenge, while his aide Harry Dexter White intended to do similar things to create a situation in Germany in which the Germans would be so horrified they would run to Stalin as a savior and protector, i.o.w. Germany would go communist. Also, Stalin (according to this book) was dangling a carrot over the German's heads-the return of the lost territories-if the Germans would switch sides and go communist.
What was the result of Potsdam and the Morgenthau starvation policies? No doubt the death by starvation and disease of several millions of Germans. In some parts of Germany, infant mortality rates after the war were upwards of 100%. There are some of us who don't believe any government (Hitler's nor Roosevelt's) should be in the business of starving people to death. Apparently, Americans don't learn from their mistakes, going by the repulsive Clinton Administration Secretary of State Albright saying "We think it's worth it" in reply to a question about starving Iraqi children to death.
How dire was the situation in occupied Germany? From Page 16; "On the train to Berlin, she was pillaged once by Russian troops and twice by Poles...Women who resisted were shot dead, she said, and on one occasion she saw a guard take an infant by the legs and crush its skull against a post because the child cried while the guard was raping its mother." ... "An old peasant from Silesia said...victims were robbed of everything they had, even their shoes. Infants were robbed of their swaddling clothes so that they froze to death. All the healthy girls and women, even those 65 years of age were raped in the train and then robbed, the peasant said."
On Page 111, the author gives an example of the FDR administrations bizarre take on the basic right of freedom of speech "In March 1945, GI's in Germany were actually placed under official orders not to make unflattering remarks about the Reds (Russians). Typical of our un-American efforts to throttle criticism was AMG censorship in April, 1946, of a letter by a Catholic Bishop calling attention to Russian abuses of Germans through forced labor and expulsions. We prohibited the reading of the letter in churches, because it might offend Russia." The author then goes on to state the following; "We must realize that there is something seriously wrong with nations, as with people, who cannot stand criticism, who try to place themselves beyond reproach, and that something is equally wrong with people who truckle to them." The reader of this book should think of the USA today in 2006, and how this truth still holds.
Finally, here's a bit of wisdom from Page 130; " No. If totalitarianism is coming to the United States it will come because the American people can be charmed by insincere, superficial, adroit politicians and fail to demand the leadership of men of character, of courage, of honesty." Just think of Clinton & Dubya when you read this.
My only other criticism of this book is the author's seemingly negative attitude towards American GI's, especially African-American GI's. The Americans were known to be among the best behaved soldiers during the post-war occupation of Germany. In the 1970's I was in Germany and remember a German woman telling me "If a German's car breaks down, no German will stop to help, only African-American soldiers stop and help." I remember the overall attitude of Germans as friendly and favorable to African-American GI's, but also remember being told by Germans that they feared and loathed French colonial troops, particularly Moroccans, who raped and assaulted German women in the postwar years. I have also read German accounts of the immediate post-war years in which it was stated that African-American GI's treated the Germans better than many Caucasian American soldiers who acted with snobbery and arrogance. Overall, my minor criticisms aside, this is a very detailed and easy-to-read historical document about the origins of the cold war and the failures of psychotic American policy based on stupidity, revenge and Stalin-appeasement.

Amazing lesser-known facts, well researched.......2004-09-04

For those interested in knowing all of world war 2 history, and not just the rosy view from the perspective of the victor, this book is a must read. My mother's side of the family are ethnic German expellees from Yugoslavia and this book aided in explaining why my family went hungry in the American zone.

All too often the rhetoric we hear is the sufferings, both real and alleged, caused by those we defeat in war. We never hear about the atrocities that our side commits. This book exposes the atrocities the Allies committed willfully against civilians, leaving the reader asking why does our country claim the moral high ground?

This certainly qualifies to be called a "holocaust" against the German people, yet in our politically biased atmosphere it is unknown. For those of you interested in the human rights of all peoples, not just those we support in wars, this is a must for you. It will make you wonder what is wrong with your history books.

Gruesome Harvest: The Allies Postwar War Against the German People

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It is good to know the whole truth

Gruesome Harvest: The Allies Postwar War Against the German People
Keeling
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Binding: Paperback

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It is good to know the whole truth.......2000-05-02

This book is important for anyone who wants to know both sides of the history of WWII. Yes, the holocaust was bad, but what we did in the name of justice was equally bad.

GRUESOME HARVEST: THE COSTLY ATTEMPT TO EXTERMINATE THE PEOPLE OF GERMANY.

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GRUESOME HARVEST: THE COSTLY ATTEMPT TO EXTERMINATE THE PEOPLE OF GERMANY.
Ralph Franklin Keeling
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the development of highly complex processes for evaluating petroleum and mineral resources has fueled debates on the appropriateness of various assessment models and the data used to calibrate them. Covering technical subjects and a range of analytical perspectives, this volume thoroughly discusses current progress in building quantitative models for resource assessment and explores the controversies that arise from data interpretation. Among other topics, Drew examines the ARDS ver. 4.01 used to support the 1995 National Oil and Gas Assessment, geologic information on the value of undiscovered mineral resources in parcels of public land, and the deterministic paradigms of traditional geologists and statistical models applied by assessment analysts.

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Oil Rigging.......2004-07-13

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Oil Rigging
Steve Collins

Undiscovered Petroleum and Mineral Resources: Assessment and Controversy. Lawrence J. Drew. 210 pp. Plenum Press, 1997. $59.50.

Although most scientists never experience controversies as significant or fights as bitter as those over the assessment of undiscovered mineral resources, all will see parallels to their own professional lives in this story told by Lawrence Drew. Nonscientists will gain an understanding of how the advance of science is constrained by the frailties of scientists and the whims of the environment in which we work. From his perspective as a quantitative geologist at the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Drew interweaves the technical with the human strands to tell of the development of statistical methods for estimating undiscovered earth resources.

Resource assessments are controversial in the political realm because they always offend some special interest. For example, both conventional and unconventional undiscovered natural gas resources were estimated in a 1980 assessment by the USGS. When a new assessment limited to conventional resources was prepared in 1988, it appeared superficially that undiscovered resources had declined by 40 percent. Politicians were not pleased. The American gas industry had lobbied to have both categories of resources estimated. Environmentalists saw natural gas as the carbon-based fuel of choice. And the Reagan administration promoted natural gas as a substitute for imported oil to improve economic and military security. Misreading of the 1988 report and the desire of these interests for a larger resource base resulted in harsh criticism of USGS methods.

Controversy results within the profession because the deterministic mindset of most geologists is challenged by the new statistical methods. Some very vocal and determined deterministic geologists have opposed applying statistical methods to estimating undiscovered metal resources. They believe that deposits cannot be classified into geologically similar groups within which statistical prediction is possible, although the validity of this approach is confirmed by the analyses themselves. Drew observes that geologists are deterministic by nature and training.

A particularly acrimonious dispute is chronicled in the last chapter, "The Charge Was Scientific Fraud." As Drew sees it, an unprofessional attack on statistical assessment methods, particularly by one USGS geologist and National Academy of Sciences member, has been the result of a complex series of events beginning in the late 1970s and continuing today. He details the effects of factors such as a greater emphasis in the USGS on producing products useful in the near term, concern for the environment, actions of nongovernmental organizations, statistical versus deterministic viewpoints, personalities of geologists, management styles and budget constraints. As a result of the attack, a review of statistical assessment methods was made by an outside organization in 1992. It found the methods to be sound and correctly applied.

Although the human aspects will be of interest to more readers, the discussion of technical matters occupies more of the book. Drew does an excellent job of explaining the fundamental concepts without recourse to mathematics. The geometric distribution of field sizes, concepts of field growth and field mortality, and grade-versus-tonnage curves for metallic deposits are clearly explained. Several pilot projects are detailed, as are their roles in the development of the methods. The numerous maps and graphs are easily understood and enhance the text.

Drew's revelation of the human side of the scientific enterprise will be interesting to scientists and an educational experience for anyone unfamiliar with the sometimes unseemly goings-on among scientists. Geologists in particular will find the technical discussion illuminating. This is a well-written and informative book, and that last chapter is a real page turner!
-Steve Collins, Consulting Geologist, Nitro, WV

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